CYNTHIA LEMERE

Scientific Advisory Board

Cynthia A. Lemere is an outstanding neurobiologist who has dedicated her research to new approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Dr. Lemere is Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Neuroscientist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in the Center for Neurologic Diseases (CND). In 1997, she founded her lab as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She completed her doctoral research on the temporal pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) of Down syndrome patients and APP transgenic mice in the laboratory of Dr. Dennis Selkoe. Her later interests have shifted to the role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2004, she became Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Over the past several years, her major work has focused on developing a safe and effective amyloid-beta vaccine for the prevention or treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Lemere received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.S. in Neurobiology from State University of New York at Albany, and her Ph.D. in Pathology from Boston University School of Medicine.